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                     Southern California Library
             for Social Studies and Research                                
 We welcome your interest in joining the Southern California Library and becoming a Library Friend.

The Southern California Library is a vital community resource in the heart of Los Angeles dedicated to education for social change. The Library offers unique and accessible collections and programs on Southern California’s social and progressive history. We engage people across generations in using history to advance social justice.

The Library is a Los Angeles treasure. Since 1963, we have been devoted to making the history of labor, civil rights, women’s, immigrants’ and other grassroots movements meaningful—and useful—to a new generation. Expanding our base of supporters is crucial for our future as an independent resource for students, scholars, and activists shaping a progressive vision for Los Angeles.

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What We Do

What the Library does is unique—and needed more now than ever before. Among other things, we:

  • Preserve the documentary record of social justice movements

  • Connect that documentation (through programs, events, and publications) to contemporary issues like peace, civil liberties, racial profiling, the living wage, and affordable housing

  • Work with high school teachers, especially in South Los Angeles, in putting L.A. social justice history into the classroom

  • Serve as a gathering place for people making social change in Los Angeles

What You Will Receive

As a Library Friend, you will receive borrowing privileges from our rich book and video collections. You will receive a subscription to Heritage, our regular newsletter for members, filled with interesting feature articles as well as news about what’s going on at the Library. And you will receive invitations to special events. Make a donation online or fill out the membership form (PDF) and send it in with your remittance, and you will become part of the Library family.

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The Library is a non-profit organization that depends upon contributions from its supporters for its existence. We encourage you to join the Library ($40/year; students $20/year; people's rate $10/year; $50 Donor; $100 Sponsor; $200 Benefactor) or to get a membership for friends or loved ones by sending their name and address along with the contribution. The Library will send a card acknowledging your gift. 

Expanding our base of supporters is crucial for our future as an independent resource for students, scholars, and activists shaping a progressive vision for Los Angeles. 

SCL is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Library are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

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